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Midget professional baseball player

As he walked off the field, Gaedel was given a boisterous standing ovation. Join over 50, Subscribers getting our FREE Daily Knowledge and Weekly Wrap newsletters: The Literary Origins of the Midget Pinch Hitter". In , Gaedele played for the Advanced-A Lake Elsinore Storm , three steps below the majors, and batted. The owner of the White Sox? This telling of Jackie Robinson breaking the major league baseball color barrier layers on the schmaltz. The crowd of 18, had been promised "a festival of surprises" by Veeck.

Eddie Gaedel

As an adult, Eddie found work as a mascot for Mercury Records and during World War II Eddie had found employment as a riveter his stature made it easy for him to crawl inside the wings of planes. Gaedel was a professional performer, belonging to the American Guild of Variety Artists AGVA. Gaedel made a triumphant walk to first base, where he was immediately replaced by a pinch runner.